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VMware vSphere 6.7 delivers key capabilities to enable IT organizations to address the following notable trends that are putting new demands on their IT infrastructure: Explosive growth in quantity and variety of applications, from business-critical applications to new intelligent workloads Rapid increase in hybrid cloud environments and use cases Global expansion of on-premises data centers, including at the edge Heightened importance of security relating to infrastructure and applications Download the White Paper: What's New in vSphere 6.7

Underlying each release of VMware vSphere are many performance and scalability improvements. The VMware vSphere 6.5 platform continues to provide industry-leading performance and features to ensure the successful virtualization and management of your entire software-defined datacenter. This paper describes new performance enhancements and features included in vSphere 6.5. Based on these performance, scalability, and feature improvements in vSphere 6.5, VMware continues to demonstrate industry-leading performance

VMware vSphere® 6.5 is the next-generation infrastructure for next-generation applications. It provides a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that accelerates the digital transformation to cloud computing and promotes success in the digital economy. vSphere 6.5 supports both existing and next-generation apps through its 1) simplified customer experience for automation and management at scale; 2) comprehensive built-in security for protecting data, infrastructure, and access; and 3) universal application platform for running any app anywhere. With vSphere 6.5, customers can now run, manage, connect, and secure their applications in a common operating environment, across clouds and devices. This paper…

This document provides step-by-step examples that demonstrate how to set up the following network services in NSX for vSphere: Logical Switches Logical Distributed Router Distributed Firewalls Logical Centralized Routers (Edge) with Dynamic Routing and with many-to-one NAT Logical Load Balancers (Edge) At the end, you'll have the following logical network deployed in your lab: L2 bridging, VPN, and service composer are not covered in this document. Likewise, integrations with third party vendors, such as Palo Alto Networks, Symantec and F5, are not covered here.

The new Proliant Gen8 servers require you to use a customised image for the installation of ESXi to be a success. The network and storage drivers are combined in the HP customised image and therefore you are unable to install ESXi with a standard download ISO from VMware. There are a number of download options available to you which is summarised below: 1 - HP Customised ESXi Image ESXiandvSphere: vSphere 5.5 U1 June 2014 - Download here vSphere 5.5 June 2014 - Download here vSphere 5.1 U2 June 2014 - Download here vSphere 5.1 U1 Sept 2013 - Download here vSphere…

I wanted to create this post because a fellow vExpert has created a great toolkit which I have personally used and found very useful when installing vSphere 5.5 and correctly configuring SSL. Some of the benefits of the SSL powershell script include: Downloads and installs the proper version of OpenSSL (0.9.8.za) if it’s not already installed Creates 2048 bit RSA private keys in the proper format Creates a directory for each service bundle of SSL certificates Generates seven OpenSSL configuration files, one for each certificate, in the appropriate directory Downloads both root and subordinate root public certificates Submits the CSRs to…

When trying to create a XenDesktop group that is using ESX 4/5 as the hosting infrastructure, or you've had to reinstall VMware vCentre you may receive the following error message: "The hosting infrastructure could not be reached at the specified address." or there is no virtual desktop activity i.e. power on/off as virtual desktops are being used when viewed in vCentre recent activity The reason for this is because VMWare, vSphere, and the ESX host are configured to redirect http traffic to https by default. Because the default certificate on ESX does not match the name of the server, it…

Whilst at VMworld 2103 I had the opportunity to attend a session that Duncan Epping and Lee Dilworth did on "vSphere Metro Storage Clusters" somebody has kindly uploaded the entire session to Youtube and is available below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dEZQVFtsmnU

For people who use Symantec Netbackup as their backup client of choice (as I do) and running a VMware environment you will find the following information useful. Here is a short information about the Option available in Netbackup for VMware. VMware Credentials in Netbackup: Click Media and Device Management > Credentials > Virtual Machine Servers. Click Actions > New > New Virtual Machine Server. On the Add Virtual Machine Server dialog, enter the name of a virtual machine server (vCenter server or ESX server). Note: The credentials for ESX or vSphere client are needed that Netbackup can create and access the virtual machine Snapshots. VMware backup…